National security expert, author, and U.S. Navy captain, Morgan Murphy is a senior fellow with the America First Policy Institute, where he works with the nation’s foremost thought leaders to protect the United States. Prior to joining AFPI, Morgan served as the national security advisor to U.S. Senator “Coach” Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama from 2021 to 2023 and the press secretary to the U.S. Secretary of Defense in the first Trump administration. As a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserves, he is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, where he was awarded the Meritorious Defense Service Medal and the Afghan campaign medal, among others.
The Alabama native is a graduate of the University of Oxford, the U.S. Naval War College, and Birmingham-Southern College.
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